{"id":696,"date":"2013-01-19T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T14:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/?p=696"},"modified":"2013-01-19T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T14:24:19","slug":"golden-year-for-provider-of-companionship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/2013\/01\/19\/golden-year-for-provider-of-companionship\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden year for provider of companionship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-697\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2013\/01\/Abbeyfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-697\" src=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2013\/01\/Abbeyfield-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2013\/01\/Abbeyfield-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2013\/01\/Abbeyfield-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club member Celia Veal, centre, who introduced guest speakers Gill Cairns and Roy Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fareham\u2019s Abbeyfield Society, the organisation that runs homes for independent and active older people, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year.<\/p>\n<p>The society has two houses in the town\u2019s East Street where older people who no longer want to live alone can find companionship.<\/p>\n<p>Although the homes have permanent staff they are run by an executive committee of volunteers and two of them, Gill Cairns and Roy Taylor, told members all about the friendly \u2018family\u2019 home atmosphere the staff strive to provide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach home has a housekeeper and they go that extra mile for the residents,\u201d said Mrs Cairns. \u201cThere are a number of social activities such as cream teas, barbecues and gatherings at Christmas for those residents who don\u2019t go to stay with family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents cater for themselves at breakfast but \u201cthey all get together at lunch and at tea time,\u201d said Mr Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Each resident has their own bedsitting room with their own furniture with an en suite bathroom. They have their own front door key allowing them to be independent.<\/p>\n<p>Both houses have a guest suite so that visitors can stay and there is a laundry room as well as parking spaces for cars and buggies. Housekeepers live in and are on call 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Fees are inclusive of food and any expense you would incur in your own home except for telephone bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProspective residents can come and stay for a trial week to see how they like it,\u201d said Mrs Cairns. Anyone interested can telephone for more information on 01489 881287.<\/p>\n<p>The two speakers were thanked for their interesting talk by Stella Astbury who presented them with a donation of \u00a350.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fareham\u2019s Abbeyfield Society, the organisation that runs homes for independent and active older people, celebrates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Golden year for provider of companionship | News | Blog | Events | SI Solent East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Solent East : Blog &amp; News : Golden year for provider of companionship : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Solent East . 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